The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, on Saturday was shock over the on-going military activity at Orlu in Imo State.
Every day POST reports that for as long as couple of days, troops of the Nigerian Army were said to have raged Orlu, combing bushes and Forests looking for the individuals from the Eastern Security Network
The Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma had likewise come out to say he approved the military operation in Orlu.
He said the public authority found that there were delibrate attempt to assault Orlu in the guise of searching for Fulani herders.
“That is the reason our administration chose to welcome military to flush out the criminals and their purported ESN. We found that there was a camp which the criminalss et up at Umutanze, Orlu and we sent police to remove them,” the Governor said.
Responding, OYC in an articulation gave by its President-General, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, cautioned that the life of any Igbo man squandered would attract dire consequences
He said it was disheartening that the military and other security agents were likewise utilizing Igboland as a testing ground while they couldn’t handle security challenges confronting them in different part of the country.
Okwu said, “our heart drains indeed over the information on the disorder going on in Orlu Imo State. It is very miserable that a sitting Governor is bragging to have been the mind behind such orgy of violence and needles assault on his people.
“It is very disgraceful that while the Federal Government and it’s representatives were negotiating with kidnappers and Terrorists in the North, the same government is here clamping down on individuals requesting for their freedom from oppressors and killer hedsemen
“In any case, Governor Hope Uzodinma and some other individual engaged with this disorder should realize that they would not go without any penalty. Regardless of what amount of time it requires, they would account each and every soul killed by these blood thirsty security men.”
